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Buyers are NOT charged for normal auction transactions they are only charged for
Escrow services. |
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Sellers are only charged for successful auctions and are NOT charged for listing
items on bideasi. |
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Sellers are provided with a ready made market of buyers. |
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Sellers are immediately notified when a buyer wants an item that the seller
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Due to our advanced monitoring system Sellers and Buyers are ensured a fair price. |
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bideasi has many more Smart Services available to both buyers and sellers. |
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bideasi provides an incentive
to use bideasi more for buying and selling by reducing the fee percentage
for final value sales. The higher the member's positive feedback, the lower
the fee percentage gets, in 3 stages. See
preferential fees for more information. |
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The idea behind bideasi is to
revolutionise online auctioning. |
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Instead of making the seller the person who is in control of the auction. bideasi puts the buyer in control. The
buyer starts the auction by listing a
buy item.
This means that all buy items
listed on our website are actual items that
buyers want, thus providing a ready-made market. |
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But we don't stop there. |
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When a buyer places a buy item onto our website he/she must set a starting price for the item. This is the
price that the buyer would like to buy the item for. Sellers may want to offer a slightly higher price,
this they can do. The buyer
can then choose to either accept or decline the sellers offer price.
It is possible for price negotiations to continue between the buyer and sellers.
The starting prices set by the buyers must be realistic prices, for
example, £1 for a new family car is not a realistic price. To ensure realistic starting prices
are set, guide prices are often provided for items, and our advanced monitoring system will assist in preventing the submission of unreasonable starting prices, thus safeguarding fair prices of
items for sellers |
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Introductory Offer |
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bideasi provides a
ready-made market for Sellers, because buyers list products that they would
like to purchase. |
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With bideasi there
are no unsold items that are charged listing fees. Unlike other
auction sites, no-one is charged any fees for incomplete auctions ( ie: auctions
were items remain unsold ). |
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Fees are only charged to sellers on successful auctions. |
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Sellers
should receive fair prices for their items, because buyers are required to
set
realistic starting prices, and
our advanced monitoring system ensure that these prices are both fair to
buyers and sellers. |
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Buyers can add many buy items, but cannot simply add an unlimited number
without ever purchasing anything, especially if sellers do offer the buyers
starting prices. bideasi will continue to monitor activity on our sites to
ensure that buyers are properly using the site. |
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The higher the combined value of a member's feedback scores, buying and
selling scores, the better preferential rates a seller will receive for
selling their items. See our fees for
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Firstly, buyers are not charged to enter buy items onto our website. In fact
through a normal transaction, buyers are not charged for the entire website service. The only time a buyer may be charged a fee would be if the
buyer chooses to use our Escrow service or optional additional listing services.. |
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Buyers should also receive fair prices for
items they purchase. Buyers only have to pay for items by accepting an offer
price from sellers. |
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Our Escrow service ensures a
smooth transaction between buyer and seller and removes any uncertainty and
concern from possible online fraudulent transactions. |
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Our improved feedback system
is quick, easy and protects the buyer from untrustworthy sellers. Separate feedback values are given for all the buying activity and all the selling activity of a member. These feedback values will provide members with information which will enable them to immediately ascertain the level of activity of the other party
( ie. ratio between buying and selling activity ).
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When a buyer submits a buy item that matches with a seller’s category of interest the seller will receive instant
email notification. For example, if a seller is interested in selling sports cars, whenever a
buyer enters a buy item for a sports car the seller will be notified
immediately of the buyer's interest. Alternatively, if a seller has a one-off sale he would like to make he may use the search facilities on our website to locate a matching buy item. |
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We have introduced a number of other smart benefits to improve your
experience and speed up the whole process, such as our advanced feedback system.
No longer are you required to spend a lot of time entering feedback messages. Standard feedback messages
are provided for you to choose from, just click on the appropriate message,
or you can enter your own customised feedback message. |
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We have used the same idea
as the
feedback system to allow members to ask Standard Email Questions of either buyers or
sellers. These will be based on questions most frequently asked. Once again saving our members time and effort when sending email questions,
or a member can choose to enter their own customised email. |
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Using the same principle as with the feedback and email systems members will be able to quickly enter Complimentary Messages to buyers and sellers after a transaction has been completed. |
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Then we revisited feedback. The problem
with feedback ratings on other websites is that you will not know if the member has done more buying
or more selling to gain his/her feedback rating, so we decided to give each
member 2 Feedback Ratings, one rating for all the buying they do, and one for all
their selling. For example if a member buys something and the seller gives
him / her a good
feedback they will receive an extra 1 point for their 'Buyer Feedback Rating'.
As a result members are better informed about the buyer / seller each member is.
Sellers who gain high
feedback ratings are rewarded with
preferential fees. |
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bideasi provides an optional warranty service to
cover most cars and electronic equipment. If the product you are purchasing
offers a warranty the Warranty Direct symbol will be displayed on the
payment page. If you are a Seller and wish to provide the warranty option
you must add your product to one of the appropriate categories in the
following Warranty Category
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Register, log in, enter
a word or short phrase in the Search Catalogue box and
press Go. |
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If the item exists in the bideasi catalogue a
list of options will be shown. Select an item, enter relevant information
and press the 'Add Item To Your Buyer Request' button. Sellers will now make
offer prices. |
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If the item does not yet exist in the catalogue
you can create a new item. Click on the Buy button.
Select the 'Add New Items Menu' button followed by 'Add New Item', enter a
word or short phrase in the search box and press Search or 'Multiple
Search', the later returns more options to choose from. Now choose one of
the categories and press Confirm. |
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Once the item has been selected press the 'Add
Item To Your Buyer Request'. The buy item request has been created. Sellers
will now make offer prices. |
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Register and log in. |
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The best way to advertise a Sellers items is to
add the items to the bideasi catalogue. |
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For Sellers to add 1 item at a time click on
'Add New & Update Items Menu' followed by 'Add New Items And Categories'.
Adding an item is similar to steps 2 and 3 shown in the previous section,
Getting Started for Buyers. |
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Sellers can add 100's and 1000's of items in one
go using the 'Bulk Upload' section. Step 1 in this section provides a
detailed help menu to guide you through the process of submitting multiple
items in one go. |
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Once Buyers can see Seller's items in the
bideasi catalogue they can express interest in purchasing the items, Sellers
are immediately notified by email of the Buyers interest.
But first the Seller must add the appropriate category to their account, see
'Add New Items And Categories' section.
Or, Sellers must submit appropriate keywords, click on 'Search For Buy Items
Menu' button and then go to the 'Keyword Search' section. Here a Seller can
add keywords to their account so that bideasi can perform automatic searches
for matching buy items and automatically notify the Seller by email of any
matching Buyers. |
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Registration is free, simple and
automatically grants buyer and seller status to all members. If you don't
currently have a MoneyBookers account we advise you to create one. This can be
done when you register with bideasi.
Click Here to register.
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| bideasi members can earn money on bideasi
without having to buy anything,
Click Here To Learn How |
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| Or if you would like to learn more please Click Here to visit our help menu |